AHJ_ah09442 Inventory of the Kemmerer Coal Company Records, 1893-1952 Kemmerer Coal Company Records Processed by Kathryn R. Browning University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
American Heritage Center Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 307.766.2574 Fax:307.766.5511 Email:ahcref@uwyo.edu URL:http://ahc.uwyo.edu/
2013

University of Wyoming

 Finding aid encoded by Ann Mulfort January 2013 and by Andrew Schuster February 2018 Finding aid is in English Collection Summary Kemmerer Coal Company Kemmerer Coal Company records 1893-1952 09442 31.00 cubic feet (32 boxes) University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English This collection contains material relating to the Kemmerer Coal Company (KCC) of Wyoming, especially it's founders P. J. Quealy, John L. Kemmerer and Mahon S. Kemmerer. Included are correspondence, legal files, financial files, reports, minutes, and subject files relating to the KCC and its activities. History of the Kemmerer Coal Company

The Kemmerer Coal Company (KCC) was founded in 1897 by Patrick J. Quealy (1857-1930), Mahlon S. Kemmerer (d. 1926) and his son, John L. Kemmerer with Quealy serving as president. Quealy and the Kemmerers also established the town of Kemmerer in Lincoln County, Wyoming in 1897.

 Scope and Content

Collection contains correspondence and letterpress books for the KCC, Quealy, Mahlon and John L. Kemmerer regarding business affairs, coal mining and labor relations (1893-1952); miscellaneous financial materials for the KCC (1897-1942); miscellaneous materials relating to the Short Line Land and Improvement Company, which the KCC held interest in, and the development of the town of Kemmerer, Wyoming; and a 1911 letter from Robert Lincoln to John L. Kemmerer about his trip into Yellowstone National Park.

 Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

 Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

 Related Materials

There are also Kemmerer Coal Company Records at the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and at the Fossil Country Frontier Museum, Kemmerer, Wyoming

 Additional Information

Finding aid available in repository.

 Acquisition Information

Donated by John L. Kemmerer Jr. and received in 1987.

Processing Information

Processed by Kathryn R. Browning, February 1988

 Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

 Access Terms Short Line Land and Improvement Company. Coal mines and mining -- Wyoming -- Lincoln County. Coal mines and mining -- Wyoming -- Kemmerer. National parks and reserves -- Wyoming. City planning -- Wyoming -- Kemmerer. Industrial relations -- Wyoming -- Kemmerer. Kemmerer (Wyo.) Lincoln County (Wyo.) Yellowstone National Park. Wyoming -- History -- 1890-1918. Wyoming -- History -- 1919-1945. Wyoming -- History -- 1946- Letterpress copybooks. <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926. Kemmerer, Mahlon S. Kemmerer, John L., 1869-1944. Quealy, P. J. (Patrick J.), 1857-1930. Agriculture and Natural Resources Mines and Mineral Resources Business, Industry, Labor, and Commerce Businesses and Corporations Wyoming Container List Series I. Correspondence Files

1 American Mining Congress 1911 - 1918 1 Audit 1910 - 1916 1 Bank - Note Renewals 1907 - 1918 1 Carbon County Ranch (3 folders) 1899 - 1930 1 Carbon Iron and Steel Company 1898 - 1930 1 Carbon Timber Company.- P. J. Quealy , Receiver (3 folders) 1910 - 1917 1 Christmas, H. E. and H. R. 1902 - 1908 1 Coal Strike 1921 1 Coke Development and Testing 1902 1 Comparative Coal Shipments 1912 - 1920 1 Contracts and Leases 1932 - 1937 1 Democratic National Committee 1912 - 1920 1 Democratic State Committee (2 folders) 1911 - 1930 1 Denver Joint Stock Land Bank (1 letter press book) 1920 - 1929 2 Elk Coal Company - Elkol Mine 1910 - 1922 2 Federal Coal Company (1 folder, 1 letter press book) 1910 - 1922> 2 First Joint Stock Land Bank of Cheyenne 1923> 2 First National Bank of Kemmerer (5 letter press books) 1900 - 1930 2 First National Bank of Parco (1 letter press book) 1920 - 1929 2 First Security Corporation Acquisition 1929 - 1930 3 Frontier Supply Company (1000 page letter press book) 1921 - 1922 3 General Electric Company 1913 - 1931 3 General - P. J. Quealy (6 folders) 1897 - 1931 3 Grazing Permit - Medicine Bow Forest 1918 - 1923 3 E. Guerenti and F. Bacos 1914 - 1915 4 Gunn-Quealy Coal Company (1 folder, 5 letter press books) 1900 - 1930 5 Hamm and Arnold 1907 - 1910 5 Intermountain Oil Company (1 letter press book) 1901 - 1904 5 Investments - Bonds and Stocks 1919 - 1929 5 Irish Relief: American Committee for Relief of Ireland (1 folder, 1 letter press book) 1921 - 1923 5 John L. and Mahlon S. Kemmerer (9 folers, 1 letter press book) 1898 - 1930 6 Kemmerer Coal Company (7 letter press books) 1900 - 1902 7 Kemmerer Coal Company (7 letter press books) 1902 - 1905 8 Kemmerer Coal Company (8 letter press books) 1905 - 1910 9 Kemmerer Coal Company (8 letter press books) 1910 - 1918 10 Kemmerer Coal Company (8 letter press books) 1918 - 1927 11 Kemmerer Coal Company (5 letter press books) 1927 - 1930 11 Kemmerer Coal Company, John R. Lane (1 letter press book) 1902 - 1903 11 Kemmerer Coal Company, John Lane, R. S. Lewis, Frank Malone (1 letter press book) 1907 - 1908 11 Kemmerer Coal Company, R. S. Lewis, Frank Malone (1 folder, 1 letter press book) 1910 - 1911 12 Kemmerer Coal Company, Lester M. Pratt (2 folders, 1 letter press book) 1904 - 1931 12 Kemmerer Coal Company Coal Sales (7 letter press books) 1908 - 1930 13 Kemmerer Coal Company Material Orders and Contracts, Frank Malone (6 folders, 5 letter press books) 1902 - 1927 14 Kemmerer Coal Company Production (1 letter press book) 1900 - 1903 14 Kemmerer Coal Company Telegrams (6 letter press books) 1897 - 1910 15 Kemmerer Oil and Development Company and Kemmerer Publishing Company (1 letter press book) 1901 - 1905 15 Augustine Kendall, President of 1st National Bank of Rock Springs 1907 - 1923 15 LaBarge Oil Company (Kemmerer - LaBarge Oil Company) (2 folders) 1909 - 1930 15 Leases - Carbon County Lands 1912 - 1929 15 Lincoln County, formation of (2 folders) 1910 - 1911 32 Lincoln, Robert Todd letter to John L Kemmerer, Lincoln's impressions, remarks on Wyoming and topic on the formation of Lincoln County, Wyoming (Original) 1911 15 Lincoln, Robert Todd letter to John L Kemmerer (Photocopy) 1911 16 Material - Timber Lands, Ties, Props 1909 - 1916 16 Megeath Coal Company Dispute 1915 - 1930 16 Minton Oil Speculation (1 letter press book) 1927 - 1930 16 Miscellaneous "C"? 1923 - 1939 16 Miscellaneous Coal Mining Royalties 1915 - 1931 16 Miscellaneous Land Leases 1912 - 1919 16 Miscellaneous Lands, Oil Information and Stocks 1915 - 1926 16 Miscellaneous Mining Information 1912 - 1918 16 Miscellaneous P. J. Quealy (9 folders) 1901 - 1907 17 Miscellaneous P. J. Quealy (6 folders) 1906 - 1929 17 William Monay 1893 - 1917 17 National Coal Association 1918 - 1921 17 Nevada Hill Top Mining Company (Kimberly Consolidated Mine Company) (1 folder, 1 letter press book) 1908 - 1922 17 143 Liberty Street 1908 - 1930 17 Oregon King (2 letter press books) 1902 - 1906 17 Oregon Short Line Railroad Company 1906 - 1907 18 Outside Coal Proposition 1911 - 1915 18 Outside Investments 1916 - 1925 18 Personal - P. J. Quealy (7 letter press books) 1898 - 1915 19 Personal - P. J. Quealy (1 folder, 7 letter press books) 1898 - 1915 20 Personal - P. J. Quealy (7 letter press books) 1906 - 1915 21 Personal - P. J. Quealy (8 letter press books) 1915 - 1919 22 Personal - P. J. Quealy (8 letter press books) 1920 - 1927 23 Personal - P. J. Quealy (3 letter press books) 1926 - 1930 23 Peterson, Oscar - Quealy-Peterson Sheep Company 1916 - 1930 23 Pinnacle Kemmerer Fuel Company (P-K Fuel) (1 letter press book) 1915 - 1930 23 Plants - Electrical and Water 1898 - 1930 23 Politics - P. J. Quealy (3 folders) 1902 - 1930 23 Producers and Refiners Corporation (2 folders) 1917 - 1919 24 P. J. Quealy Company, Inc. (1 letter press book) 1928 24 P. J. Quealy Sheep and Live Stock Company (1 letter press book) 1929 - 1930 24 Quealy and Kemmerer Company (1 letter press book) 1898 24 Quealy, Jay A. (2 folders) 1910 - 1930 24 Quealy, Larry 1907 - 1908 24 Quealy, Mahlon 1916 - 1921 24 Quealy, Michael 1912 - 1916 24 Quealy, Susan J. (Mrs. P. J./Susie) 1911 - 1930 24 Quealy, Thomas 1906 - 1912 24 Real Estate 1911 - 1929 24 Real Estate Scrip Entry 1914 - 1929 24 Rescue Station 1910 24 Riverside Coal Company (1 letter press book) 1907 - 1930 25 Short Line Land and Improvement Company (6 folders, 3 letter press books) 1898 - 1933 26 C. W. Schickley 1911 - 1930 26 State Bank of Cokeville 1909 - 1929 26 State Board of Equalization 1902 - 1910 26 T. S. Taliaferro, Jr. 1911 - 1924 26 Taxes, Falk, Johnson and Company 1916 - 1918 26 Gertrude L. Kemmerer Thorne 1913 - 1920 26 Uinta Improvement Company (2 folders, 1 letter press book) 1911 - 1952 26 Union Pacific Coal Company 1902 - 1911 26 Val Blatz Brewing Company 1911 26 Francis E. Warren 1908 - 1929 26 Water Rights 1910 - 1929 26 Western Tariff Association 1923 - 1929 26 Western Wyoming Power and Water Company (1 letter press book) 1920 - 1921 26 Whitney and Kemmerer 1906 - 1910 26 Wilson's Business Men's League 1916 26 Wyoming Timber Company (2 folders, 1 letter press book) 1915 - 1930 26 Yellowstone Extension 1919 - 1923 Series II. Business Records

Financial Files: 27 Audits (2 folders) 1916 27 Bank Statements (3 folders) 1890 - 1912 27 Democratic National Committee Miscellaneous Data 1917 - 1942 27 Short Line Land and Improvement Company (2 folders) 1908 - 1934 27 Short Line Land and Improvement Company Price List undated 27 Short Line Land and Improvement Company Taxes 1910 - 1919 27 Stock Tax Return 1919 27 Taxes 1911 - 1921 27 Taxes, P. J. Quealy 1920 - 1930 Legal Files: 28 Deeds 1892 - 1934 28 Kemmerer Water Works Sale to Town of Kemmerer 1910 - 1940 28 Kemmerer Townsite Property Deeds 1929 28 Mining Stock 1910 - 1917 Minutes: 28 Short Line Land and Improvement Company Shareholders and Trustees' Meetings 1916 - 1928 Series III. Reports

28 Carlson Auxiliary Ditch Engineering Report 1925 28 Coal Mine Air Reports 1911 - 1928 28 Gunn-Quealy and Van Dyke Consolidated Coal Companies Accident Reports 1907 - 1918 28 Kemmerer Coal Company Accident Reports (6 folders) 1903 - 1915 28 Kemmerer Coal Company Mine Inspections Reports 1904 - 1918 28 Kemmerer Coal Company No. 5 Mine Operating Reports 1912 - 1918 28 Newmont Mining Corporation Annual Report 1928 28 Oregon Short Line Railroad Company Damaged Car Reports 1910 - 1916 28 Timber Reports 1910 - 1924 29 State of Wyoming Workmen's Compensation Fund Reports (Four 1000 page letter press books) 1908 - 1923 Series IV. Subject Files

30 Coal 1914 - 1922 30 Coal Operators Association 1917 - 1918 30 Grapefruit Land 1912 30 Helioplane Company of America 1929 - 1930 30 Liberty Loans 1917 - 1918 30 Miscellaneous (2 folders) 1917 - 1931 30 Miscellaneous Companies (7 folders) 1911 - 1931 30 Miscellaneous Taxes 1901 - 1930 30 National Defense 1917 - 1918 31 Quotations from Carlson Telephone Company and Western Engineering Specialties Company 1917 31 Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia 1926 31 Tariffs on Coal 1918 - 1930 31 Taxation 1930 - 1936 31 Tongue River Land Company 1910 - 1928 31 Union Pacific Coal Company, Cumberland, Wyoming, Agreements - Royalty and Extensions 1910 - 1928 31 United Mine Workers Wage Agreements 1937 - 1944 31 University of Wyoming 1926 - 1930 31 Workmen's Compensation Law 1915 31 Worland Contracts - Taliaferro and Quealy 1909 - 1918 31 Wyoming Publicity Association 1912 Lists: 28 Poll Lists of Heads of Families in Wyoming Counties undated